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File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics. | File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics. | ||
File:Imre Lakatos.jpg|link=Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and | File:Imre Lakatos.jpg|link=Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|Imre Lakatos]] uses his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One]]'' (Peenemunde edition). | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One]]'' (Peenemunde edition). | ||
File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist and academic [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] dies. He introduced the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known. | File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist and academic [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] dies. He introduced the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known. | ||
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1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1842: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Imre Lakatos uses his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).
1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.